skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been dozens and dozens (if not more) of diplomatic talks which Putin all sabotaged.

Putin lying that there would not be any wars was just one talk among others, probably the most memorable and iconic of the war.

What is Putin bringing to the table this time to guarantee that it won't end up like the other times?
Great article. Even smart people can get tired at some point. In fact reducing cognitive load IS the smart thing to do.
It's good to bring awareness to this. I like simple rules that help reduce cognitive load, and can be shared in pull requests.
Simple things like early returns.

Rules like "limit the number of lines to 300" are meant to be broken. Some 2k-line code files are easy to understand, some are not. It depends. It always depends.
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Maybe they can propose a subcommittee to discuss the possibility of negotiating a treaty between member states that will enable a proposition to vote on a measure to discuss possible actions. But I’m not hopeful.
Europe will be worried like always is. And nothing will happen. My last job was at large German military contractor. My personal opinion is that this whole industry is made to consume government’s money in most inefficient way instead of building something for government.
You don't need that much of energy to keep CMOS memory and RTC clock running. The battery will self-discharge way before it's exhausted by the load. IMHO.
I do something similar on my website: https://bini.wales returns 200 for all endpoints and logs all attempts, so it makes for a decent have a honeypot against automated attacks (mostly it just catches people mass scanning for vulnerable WordPress plugins or leftover backdoors). Similarly, https://varun.ch/login emulates a WordPress site (with a twist)
> One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and turn them around.

That is one damn good Superpower! Develop it further and charge/ask more for the job. Advertise it in big bold letters to management/clients/everybody. As you say, that is your "brand".

> And if anyone has tips for how to make use of this skill set in a way that's genuinely fulfilling rather than draining, I'm all ears!

Do not let the above take over your life. Practice detachment via "Self-Distancing" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_(psychology)) and drop it from your mind/consciousness when not working. Also see;

Self-Distancing: What It Is and How You Can Use It to Make Better Decisions - https://effectiviology.com/self-distancing-rational-decision...
I don't but I can. Which a very nice thing to have if you don't want to use Windows VM for a CAD, for example.
This was a power cable...
Yeah, but it still only uses OCR, right?
Curious what specifically you’re running into?
Cognitive load example in Go. It is common to give variables single letter names. Now you have to build up a mapping in your head that for example `a` means `Auction`. You could skip this mapping if you just named the variable `auction`.
Well.. I mean Calhoun's "Universe 25" mouse experiment says it all doesn't it.

ie. --
"Eventually other deviant behavior emerged. Mice who had been raised improperly or kicked out of the nest early often failed to develop healthy social bonds, and therefore struggled in adulthood with social interactions. Maladjusted males began isolating themselves like hermits in empty apartments—unusual behavior among mice, vying their time playing vidya or writing useless but whimsical unix programs. Maladjusted females, meanwhile, took to grooming all day—preening and licking themselves hour after hour, incessantly posting pictures of themselves on social media for attention. Calhoun called them “the beautiful ones.”"
Wow, looking nice!
Can’t you simply encrypt all traffic across the cable at each end point? I’d be surprised if that wasn’t common practice these days. And if wasn’t common practice when these cables were deployed, seems like it would be possible to retrofit.
This post reminded me of Nevernesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFRhGnuXG-4
The main issue is that Europeans are starting to become worried and confused about that stance, which we know will translate into anger - understandably so because Russia is threatening those countries' ways of living, completely unprovoked.

The whole detachment from Russians who resigned themselves from any responsibility for their government action doesn't help either, because the narrative that "Russians are just victims of the regime and can't do anything about it" is already fading away.

It might snap if Europeans don't start to see decisive actions to protect their sovereignty and ways of living.

Perhaps there needs to be a blockade in the Baltic.
I wonder how (the existence of) LLMs will change language design ?
Dumb question maybe, but what does this thing do?

Edit - ChatGPT to the rescue:

> KVM over IP (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) is a hardware solution that allows administrators to remotely access and manage servers and other devices at the BIOS level, even when the operating system is not running. It provides complete remote control, enabling tasks like system reboots, troubleshooting, and OS installations as if you were physically present with the machine.
Really liked this! Thanks!
"enough" is a value judgment, it depends what field of endeavour we're talking about (and whether the types of bug that proliferate in large firms are preferable to those that proliferate in small ones).

Uber, for example? Dreadful company, but a lot of the small local outfits they displaced were in some ways worse.

Local news media? This seems a more cut and dried case where small is preferable to large, and yet.. small firms are by no means incorruptible, and if the local vested interest succeeds in doing so, history will record only his point of view.

Cars are an interesting one, it looks like the EV transition is going to allow a whole new generation of (mostly Chinese, it must be said) manufacturers to establish a foothold. That's a pretty rare event for modern consumer products, the barriers to entry are huge and in general the reasons why are good.
in Chrome, on my iphone, I can get a cool effect that looks like a glitch, but I wonder if it is a feature. If I hold a note a certain way, where the browser does a “select all”, and then drag my thumb, it drags a thumbnail of the page. When I release it, it keeps the first note and starts a new one using the new position of my thumb. I can create my own harmonies this way instead of the default parts that appear when I hold the note in place.
You do have a point. But I still do not feel comfortable. Besides I can't envisage changing providers whenever I face trouble and it gets unresolved in a timely manner which is what I assume in the current setup. Pinboard is another example. Anyway, it kind of doesn't work for me.
correct and it looks like it tries to do some autocorrect, not great when you need to copy some random characters password (like it was the case in the share WiFi password in previous android version, where you couldn't copy displayed password natively)
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The two recently sunken tankers sunk because of bad weather and russian negligence and lack of any common sense on safety - they were super old (built in 60s) river tankers, which are narrow but long. So to make them "sea worthy" they need to be shortened so a section in the middle is cut away and two halves are rewelded back [1]. These tankers were never designed for the high seas at all especially during stormy conditions. They had brocken on exactly that weld spilling thousands of tonnes of oil and mazout.

Handling of this ecological trajedy by russian government is nonexistent - while having resources to handle it, there is no will at all in doing that, no care neither about sea life nor about their own people.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/15/two-russian-ta...
The point is that the wall-clock measuring the test-taker's performance should be in the same context as the test-taker.

They will still complete the task in 70 local minutes, even if that's eighty of an outside observer's.
You might also want to check out the various books on Unix by Sumitabha Das.
Making it less accessible, right? I was thinking exactly the same.
Ignoring plausibly accidental transgressions is preferable to war. Article 5 only gets triggered if NATO members want it to be, and even then the nature of their response is left to the member nations to decide for themselves. NATO isn't some sort of automatic deadhand system meant to start WW3 over an accident like in Doctor Strangelove.

Incidentally, Russia is behaving in roughly the same way; they talk a lot of shit about, for instance, western weapons being used against targets in Russian territory, but then when that happens anyway they issue more threats instead of starting WW3 in earnest like they threatened before. They don't really want that war either; if they did they're able to start it anytime they want, but they've got kids too.
As if threats from Russia and its partners (China, Iran and North Korea) weren't bad enough, Team Trump threaten Greenland and Canada these days. Divisions within NATO is the last thing its members need at the moment.

There is more truth than I previously thought in the phrase “Europeans are vegetarians in a world of carnivores.”
Ok, I'm on a project that just picked N54 processors for a set of new designs. W/O arm cores it wouldn't even be considered. The RISC-V cores are useful and will be put to work, but they aren't exactly a selling point.

Why did we end up with N54s? Price, Performance, BLE6 support, PRICE.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and please ignore some of the other comments. HN is a place for "intellectual curiosity", but for some reason it always attracts its fair share of anti-intellectualism. Debating what cognitive load actually is is very relevant to the topic at hand.

FWIW, I can't speak to the science of it but as a programmer I even disagree with many of the conclusions in the article, such as that advanced language features are bad because they increase mental load.
The USSR had clear separation border between the West and the Eastern Block.

>Many European countries will be happy even with a much degraded Russia

They would be. Only it isn't just good old much degraded Russia like it was even in 2020 (as the Russian opposition calls it "vegetarian times"). It is now a fascist state with a nationalism as its political ideology. By its nature such regime is an aggressively expansive.
No there is not. It's just economy in a broad scence of word.
But then at this point we can take a username, take a user's posts on one site, train a LLM with these posts and ask the LLM to write comments in the style of that user on another forum/subject.

How do you even determine anymore if something is really written by someone?

Websites are already for a huge part written by bots/LLMs and we all know to take them with a huge grain of salt.

How long until we consider users posts aren't to be trusted anymore either?

It already started (impersonating usernames) for sure.

So what is this even tracking?

Heck, at this point it's nearly a guarantee we already have bots trained on outputs of other bots.

I wonder what the implication of all this is going to be.
The licensing is kind of strange. Self-hosted syncing is supposedly a paid feature, and there are indeed license checks in the code, but unlike your typical open core product with a separately licensed ee/ directory, this one including license checking code is entirely under AGPL, and FAQ specifically stresses “SiYuan is completely open source”. As such one can patch out the license check (literally a one line change if I’m not mistaken, I only scanned the code) and still completely license-compliant, and one can even distribute binaries of the patched out version, though that would be a major jerk move. So, is that intended? Only selling convenience of prebuilt images?
> on mobile
Lol, big question is would it work on zOS as well.
Sure, but in the end politics is just about economy in a broad scense of word.

I'm not saying death and murder is okay. I'm saying coutries do what they have to do by means the have (or they think they have).
Sadly I have almost stopped using pvt p2p or otherwise. I also never had anything other than a basic ruT setup. I guess it's about things like Radarr etc. I would not know where to begin with them. Will try to use something other user have suggested.
How did you get that impression? By using it, or just reading about it, in benchmarks by moronix et al.?

If using it, did you tune it, or the Linuxen, or let them be at their defaults, more or less?

How do you expect/want to use it?

Would 'less churn' be of value to you?
Comments are decent but flawed. Being a type proponent I think the best strategy is lifting business requirements into the type system, encoding the invariants in a way that the compiler can check.
Christmas of 1996, a ten year old boy was spending christmas day in front of his TV, connected to it was his Commodore 64. The boy was angry and sad, and ashamed of being angry and sad, because his parents couldn't afford to buy him a PC, he knew it was an unreasonable wish, and he knew he could not get it. He was ashamed of his sadness and anger over not being able to get a PC (it was all he'd ever wanted since he was 6 years old), and so he didn't want to participate in the christmas dinner, he just wanted to be left alone in his dark and sad room and play Kickstart 2.
He knew he was a little brat for feeling so, but alas he couldn't help himself, he felt like the future was rushing past without him.

After much convincing from his patient grandmother, the boy finally participated, his parents knew he had a hard time, and they told him that there was a present for him before the dinner (in our tradition, we open presents on christmas eve, after the dinner), so he thought they were taking pity on him, he said no, he didn't want any presents.

They asked him softly to consider it again, and he heard something in their voices and a feeling of intense shame came over him, he saw the giant boxes, inside it, a brand new PC, gifted from a wealthy, but distant relative who "thought it might be healthy for the boys development of his interest".
He cried, out of shame, and out of happiness, and he grew up so much in those moments, to feel so undeserving and yet grateful. That computer was with him the next 6 years, a 100 mhz pentium, 16 mib of RAM, 814 mib (fat32 formatted) harddisk, 4x CD rom drive. 14" color monitor, windows 95, 3 button logitech ps/2 mouse, and ESS AudioDrive sound card(soundblaster 100% compatible).
On that machine, he learned so much, and when he trashed it, there was nobody to help him format it, so in time, he figured it out, by trail and error, how to format and reinstall windows and drivers. What a time to be alive.
That computer was upgraded with a Voodoo card, a CD burner, an ISA network card (he dragged it to many LANs at friends houses and at the local youth club), at some point 32 mib ram was added too.
That machine sits behind me right now, still fully functional.
It's not an understatement to say that that experience formed me as a human being, as well as helped shape my future and career, having unlimited and unrestrained access to a computer as a kid probably saved my life in more ways than one.
So that is one of my favorite christmas memories.
More like a way to trade on its name. AI mistakes will undermine that and there will be nothing left. Going out without style.
i don’t feel like immutable distros are ready for prime time because there are still some really big limitations with flatpaks that will take time to resolve. using a secondary drive on steam is still painful and works inconsistently. 1password can’t talk to firefox to unlock it. applications like steam can’t share rpc status with discord
Cancellation is not the same as "erasure from canon." Lot of popular shows get cancelled all the time - Lower Decks got cancelled as well. Despite the narrative, Discovery was popular. It was a success.
The code is indeed entirely AGPL, I looked at license headers in the specific files implementing paid features. I wonder if it’s an oversight. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514304 for details.
An interesting point. Would there be any benefits to this non-local reasoning?
Imagine how much money Amazon could make if they invest money into convincing people that they should spend it on gifts instead of travel.

Who cares about tourism industry if you can take their money.
My father met several times Schockley in the 50-1960
He was a semi conductor engineer at Thomson-CSF in France (now ST Microelectronics). He made the first french diodes and transistors in the late 1950 in Grenoble.
Thomson-CSF had a patent agreement with Bell Labs to make transistors.
Part of the agreement was an annual consulting session with Schockley to exchange about manufacturing diodes and transistors. My father never spoke about Schockley's grumpiness.
Usually the bootloader can load a rom using tftp:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.fla...

You don't need anything except a lan cable. You need to set a static IP to the tftp server machine and name the flashing file properly and it should just work.
This reminded me issue that I had once in one of dell laptops at work. It frozen somewhere deep enough that power button was not even responsive.
I remember that I had full battery, display was off and fans were spinning on lowest speed. I figured out that I needed to pull out the battery because waiting until it drains would take ages.

I had to do this secretly because company warranty/service deal would require it to send to dell/request technician
The "Science" part is different from the "Applied" part which is what you are listing.

A good introduction to the former is Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing by David Harel and Yishai Feldman - https://www.weizmann.ac.il/math/harel/algorithmics-spirit-co...
Those pair do not preclude the other.
From the other thread [0], there's some additional context: that the Baltic statics are planning to decouple their power grid from Russia's six weeks from now (Feb. 7).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42509212
>> What happens if we apply this analogy about crusaders to modern times?

That's precisely what the author is doing. He’s drawing a parallel between “appealing storytelling” history and “rational analysis” history as applied to the crusades, to 21st century interpretations of 20th century history.

What major flaws would you assert the author has made?
> worse/impossible adblocking

Obviously that's not a downside from a software developer perspective.
Impressive work! I also checked the work about the Russian GPS jamming coming out of Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg: https://bsky.app/profile/auonsson.bsky.social/post/3lalrqyyt...

This truly shows how much of a threat Russia became.
+1 to Amperfy, I use it with the Music app on my Nextcloud. The App Store version is a bit barebones last I checked but the Testflight version feels like a completely different app, it’s just like Apple Music but self-hosted. Kind of like Apollo felt like an app Apple would make.
They're up to five ships sunk now, and the last one was a relatively new ship that was actually built for the ocean instead of inland waterways.

Probably still all accidents. Probably.
It's well known that the US healthcare system costs more for the taxpayer than single payer systems, while also bankrupting those unfortunate enough to get hurt/sick and requiring ridiculous monthly payments for the individual on top.

So I wouldn't worry about that. Healthcare is not nearly as expensive as US providers make it. Single payer systems aren't perfect either but from my perspective having lived with one my entire life it works fine. I have always gotten the help I need in reasonable time. I also have private options if I want to spend money, and they're far cheaper than private options in the US. But so far I haven't felt any need for it. A colleague was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer, he was admitted for surgery within a few days and back to work in a few weeks. Didn't cost him anything.

And just to reiterate - this is cheaper per capita, just comparing tax costs, than the US system and that's ignoring insurance premiums and copays etc.
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The Precision Time Protocol is intended to solve this problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol

It does require hardware support, though.
A few years? It has been escalating to this state for decades
Selecting text can be useful, but it can also become its own usability problem.

I recently created a touch interface using a websocket/browser based stack and one of the problem was that users kept selecting the text on buttons because they expected some action while holding the button.
Ask HN: LLM-Generated Music?
Has anyone seen or tried to get LLMs to generate music?

I just got Claude to try generate a short Christmas piano piece in TidalCycle which wasn't great, but I wonder if anyone has really tried to get this working? It'd be cool to have an LLM-music off at an Algorave, where each LLM DJs for half an hour updating the code live.

Claudes example (d1 is right hand, d2 is left hand, played at the same time)

https://github.com/InvariantInvestigator/ChristmasMusic/blob/main/claudes_christmas_jingle.tidal
So I'm wrong that Samsung is a possible example of what Apple could be that doesn't make WD a realistic example. Apple would have no more experience designing and selling trash than a UNIX vendor would have had with IDE and that makes it harder to sell top end that uses cheap performance hacks some of the time.
Yes, there are older languages using Pascal style declaration, but any of C,C++,Java dwarf it in terms of popularity and general exposure (thus my use of the term "common").

And again, in the latter part I'm talking about Kotlin's use of 'fun' and ':'.
Using time to sync between computers is one of the classic distributed systems problems. It is explicitly recommended against. The amount of errors in the regular time stack mean that you can’t really rely on time being accurate, regardless of leap seconds.

Computer clock speeds are not really that consistent, so “dead reckoning” style approaches don’t work.

NTP can only really sync to ~millisecond precision at best. I’m not aware of the state-of-the-art, but NTP errors and smearing errors in the worst case are probably quite similar. If you need more precise synchronisation, you need to implement it differently.

If you want 2 different computers to have the same time, you either have to solve it at a higher layer up by introducing an ordering to events (or equivalent) or use something like atomic clocks.